Jack London

Children of the Frost is a collection of short stories by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was published in 1902. Includes: The League of the Old Men, In the Forests of the North, The Law of Life, Nam-Bok the Unveracious, The Master of Mystery, The Sunlanders, The Sickness of Lone Chief, Keesh, the Son of Keesh, The Death of Ligoun and Li Wan, the Fair.

The story of a St. Bernard named Buck that is born into a nice life but is quickly sold to those that mistreat him. After killing "the man in the red sweater," he is sold to a Canadian who teaches him to operate in a dog sled team and then traverses the wild helping to deliver the mail. He undergoes further adventure until he is sold to Thornton and ends up saving his life from a cold river.

STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA - Large Print Edition - SHORT STORY COLLECTIONCHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMANTHE HOUSE OF MAPUHITHE WHALE TOOTHMAUKI"YAH YAH YAH "THE HEATHENTHE TERRIBLE SOLOMONSTHE INEVITABLE WHITE MANTHE SEED OF MCCOYWHITE AND YELLOWTHE KING OF THE GREEKSA RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATESTHE SIEGE OF THE "LANCASHIRE QUEEN"CHARLEY'S COUPDEMETRIOS CONTOSYELLOW HANDKERCHIEFMAKE WESTINGTYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPANTHE LOST POACHERTHE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTOTO REPEL BOARDERSAN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEAIN YEDDO BAYTHE WATER BABYTHE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"

STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA By JACK LONDON - (Fine Print Edition)SHORT STORY COLLECTIONCHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMANTHE HOUSE OF MAPUHITHE WHALE TOOTHMAUKI"YAH YAH YAH "THE HEATHENTHE TERRIBLE SOLOMONSTHE INEVITABLE WHITE MANTHE SEED OF MCCOYWHITE AND YELLOWTHE KING OF THE GREEKSA RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATESTHE SIEGE OF THE "LANCASHIRE QUEEN"CHARLEY'S COUPDEMETRIOS CONTOSYELLOW HANDKERCHIEFMAKE WESTINGTYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPANTHE LOST POACHERTHE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTOTO REPEL BOARDERSAN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEAIN YEDDO BAYTHE WATER BABYTHE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.

Po slovam samogo avtora, roman sozdavalsja s tem, chtoby obogatit kinematograf svezhim sjuzhetom. I zadacha byla vypolnena -roman, kak i mnogie drugie proizvedenija Londona, byl neodnokratno ekranizirovan. No filmam ne udalos v polnoj mere peredat uvlekatelnost i neverojatnoe obajanie literaturnogo originala. Zavorazhivajuschaja istorija kuzenov Frensisa i Genri Morganov, dalekikh potomkov velikogo piratskogo kapitana, otpravivshikhsja na poiski sokrovisch svoego legendarnogo predka, i prekrasnoj Leonsii, v kotoruju vljubleny oba, i po sej den ostaetsja odnoj iz ljubimejshikh knig ne odnogo pokolenija chitatelej.

Roman, o kotorom sam avtor govoril: "Malenkaja khozjajka" - eto to, k chemu ja stremilsja vsju svoju pisatelskuju zhizn, ved eta kniga tak nepokhozha na to, chto ja sozdaval prezhde". Odna iz samykh romantichnykh i pronzitelnykh istorij o ljubvi v amerikanskoj literature, kotoruju i sejchas nevozmozhno chitat, ne soperezhivaja gerojam. Klassicheskij ljubovnyj treugolnik - obajatelnyj biznesmen Dik Forrest, ego vernuvshijsja iz stranstvij drug Iven Grekhem i molodaja zhena Dika, miniatjurnaja krasavitsa Paola, stradajuschaja iz-za ljubvi k nim oboim, - trogaet do slez.

Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-class background and the Morses are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible unless and until he reached their level of wealth and refinement. Over a period of two years, Eden promises Ruth that success will come, but just before it does, Ruth loses her patience and rejects him in a letter, saying, "if only you had settled down ... and attempted to make something of yourself". By the time Eden attains the favour of the publishers and the bourgeoisie who had shunned him, he has already developed a grudge against them and become jaded by toil and unrequited love. Instead of enjoying his success, he retreats into a quiet indifference, interrupted only to rail mentally against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working-class friends and family. He felt that people did not value him for himself or for his work but only for his fame.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.

John Barleycorn, paru en France sous le titre Le Cabaret de la derni re chance, est une autobiographie romanc e. Ces souvenirs alcooliques taient destin s appuyer les partisans de la prohibition. A la parution en feuilleton dans le Saturday Evening Post, tous les antialcooliques s'en servent comme d'un tendard. Ni autobiographie, ni m moires, ni r cit, mais tout la fois, le narrateur nous conte comment, tout au long de sa vie, une sorte de double l'accompagna en permanence: John Barleycorn, qui, en Am rique, est la personnification de l'alcool. Pourquoi boit-on, comment, dans quelles circonstances. Faits et geste du whisky, m faits et geste de l'alcoolique. Dehors, nous brisions les goulots contre la bordure des trottoirs, et nous buvions. Comment faire pour arr ter. Est-il possible de seulement y penser? Tous les chemins que je suivais taient d tremp s d'alcool. Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney January 12, 1876 in San Francisco and died November 22, 1916 in Glen Ellen, California1,2,3,4,5, is an American writer whose themes of predilection are adventure and nature wild. He wrote The Call of the Forest and more than fifty other novels and novels known. He also draws from his readings and his own life of misery the inspiration for many highly engaged and socialist-colored works, although this aspect of his work is generally neglected. He was one of the first Americans to make a fortune in literature.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. The novel is based on the "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. In addition, this novel has an introduction and series of (often lengthy) footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Anthony Meredith. Meredith writes from around 2600 AD or 419 B. O. M. (the Brotherhood of Man). Jack London writes at two levels, often having Meredith condescendingly correcting the errors of Everhard yet, at the same time, exposing the often incomplete understanding of this distant future perspective.